Anybody running or familiar with Toyoda Mills that would like to give me there opinions? We are are specifically looking at a 5-axis UX570. I know nothing about these machines or this builder except what I see on the internets???

Thanks. It is all low volume moderate tolerance parts and the customer is supplying the material.

Anybody cutting this stuff? I have the product specs and I am confident we can machine it. I am more curious about any experience with tool wear, abrasiveness of the chips and/or dust. We do have dust collection on the machine that would run these parts but it is the best machine on the floor and I would hate to subject it to any unnecessary abuse.

Looking for suggestions on quality small to mid-size vibratory deburr equipment and media for small aluminum parts. Our current equipment and ceramic media does great on larger parts. However we really struggle with small aluminum parts. A good example is we machine a 2" diameter dual drive sprocket out of 2024 Aluminum. Lots of teeth and pretty small. With our current vibratory we either get media stuck in the part or miss most of the surfaces. Any input on what you use would be greatly appreciated.

One million hours sounds about right

I am trying to pull up the hours on our Okuma LB15 control (OSP5020L). Does anybody know what parameter page these timers exist on? I have it on our Okuma Mills just can not find it on the lathe control?

We use Visual Enterprise from Infor. Startup and Maintenance costs are pretty steep. We ended up dropping maintenance and living without updates. I do like the software however.

How many people are using Wiper inserts in facemills to improve surface finish in steels and/or stainless? Is there an appreciable difference? We run mostly Mitsubishi but have never bothered with wiper inserts.

We use MS Sales in Renton, WA. Great to work with and can usually get whatever we need.

Sweet. Great find. Thanks.

So thanks to some help from Hardmill I think it has to be a parameter setting at the machine (Fanuc 18i-TB). The code from mastercam is good. The link below shows a video of the problem. Watch at around 36s. The tool is in the cut when this happens. It looks like parameters 1006 and 1008 might be the key but as far as I can tell the bit settings look correct.

I have a program on my Doosan Mill/Turn that is doing some extensive C-axis milling. The problem is every time the C-axis code changes from positive to negative (ex C1.32 to C-.604) the C-axis is making a very abrupt, almost rapid, 180 degree rotation. So essentially the C-axis is taking the long way around to get to location. Any ideas on how to fix this. The program will not run as-is. TIA.

So we are testing some Qualichem XTREMECUT coolant and so far everybody seems to really like it. Anybody else using this coolant. Pros or Cons?

I was also at this seminar yesterday (should have introduced myself) and this is very impressive software. It is at the right price point that most smaller shops can handle it and I can see immediate time savings with the type of work we are currently doing. Nice presentation by MCAM Northwest and Spaceclaim. Thanks guys.

After re-reading my post, I left out some important details. I am familiar with the way Renishaw does things. We had a laser on one of our other machines and their macros worked great. This machine is a Doosan MX2500 with an automatic presetter arm (contact). It does not look like it is renishaw. I cannot find much documentation and Doosan is telling my AE that broken tool detection is not possible. I guess it just does not make much sense to me that a multi-tasking machine would not have these capabilities.